DAN CLARK

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Music Seen: AC + PanzerBastard + AoK Suicide Forest, live at Geno's, January 15 AoK Suicide Forest, featuring Michael Anderson (Loverless, Johnny Cremains), David Joy (Sunrunner) and Leif Sherman Curtis (Moneycastasia, ex-Conifer), have only been around since last summer and have quickly honed their blend of '70s proto-metal, psychedelia, and Japanese noise rock to a razor-sharp edge through relentless gigging.

and Johnie 3, DeeCRACKS, The New 45 at Geno's, July 2 Lost Cause Desperados have kept a low profile over the last few months, with gigs few and far between. None of that downtime has gone to waste, however, as Portland's kings of warp-speed garage-punk have been hard at work on their upcoming album, Desert of Broken Glass.

Sublime musical match-ups The Clash of the Titans has become a Portland staple over the last three years. Since shifting from the Big Easy to the Empire this year, the Tuesday tradition has lost none of its crowd-pulling potential.

Buckethead and Wolf, live at Asylum on May 27, 2009 Little is known about the masked maniac called Buckethead. According to his mythology, he was raised in a chicken coop next door to a drive-in theater, and the bucket he wears on his head contains cursed chicken bones that give him his supernatural guitar-shredding powers.

Rosetta, Shabti, and Cryptic Overcast at Geno's Local stalwarts Cryptic Overcast have carved out a niche for themselves as an almost-instrumental band with a sound as informed by heavy metal as it is by psychedelic and progressive rock.

Clubber Lang, Antiseptic + Batshelter at Geno's, April 10 Ah, Batshelter. What exactly are they? Punk, metal, a little of both, or something far more complex? Whichever, they've developed quite the following in the past few months.

Geno's, February 5 There are few words to describe the experience of sharing a stage with your favorite band. For most of us, even those without eight-figure incomes or friends with influence, it's the stuff of dreams.

Live at the Big Easy, January 9, 2009 With another holiday season over and easily the most significant presidential inauguration in history days away, most folks are probably experiencing celebration fatigue.